Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is slavery, and I don't think that any people or nation has a right to save itself at the price of slavery for anyone, no matter what name it is called. We have had the draft for twenty years now; I think this is shameful. If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say: Let the damned thing go down the drain!
Heinlein, Robert A. Expanded Universe. Grosset & Dunlap, 1980.
As part of his sermon, Beecher would auction the freedom of a slave girl.
Southern secession and the Civil War This is one of the major quotations with which historians rebut the revisionist view that the Civil War was about States’ Rights or other economic factors.
The general issued a military order emancipating slaves in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. President Abraham Lincoln rescinded the order feeling it was too premature and it would cause the slave states that stayed in the Union--Delaware, Maryland, and Kentucky--to go over to the Confederates.
The description is of the Mexican conquest of Arizona and the Indian revolt. See {612107}
This quotation illustrates the level of delusion regarding the importance of slavery that the plantation and slave owners had induced in Southern Society.
The first sentence of this quotation was a favorite of Paine's. He had earlier used it in Common Sense in 1776. See {635451}.
Brown was the richest man in Rhode Island and made much of his money in the slave trade. This quotation shows that slavery was not completely a North verses South split. Northerners like Brown for whose family Brown University was named, was as virulent supporter of slavery as the most ardent Southerner.
Although English, Cobett spent time in America and published a newspaper, The Porcupine Gazette, in Philadelphia. We was very conservative and even proposed legally enslaving the lazy poor. One of the reasons that he spent time in America was that he thought that England had become hopelessy democratic but thought there might be hope for America. Cobbett and his paper represented the extreme right wing fringe of the then Federalist Party. His Porcupine Gazette had a paying readership of 3,200, the largest circulation of any American daily newspaper.
The prophet warns the Jews about wanting a king.
Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction author, aeronautical engineer, and naval officer. Sometimes called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was among the first to emphasize scientific accuracy in his fiction, and was thus a pioneer of the subgenre of hard science fiction. His published works, both fiction and non-fiction, express admiration for competence and emphasize the value of critical thinking. His work continues to have an influence on the science-fiction genre, and on modern culture more generally.
